Audio Expansion Request - VST Support

[paulallenbright]

There are a lot of vst processing components out there for audio processing as well as VST instruments. It would be awesome if this game engine allowed you to load any vst within the game engine and use it to process your game audio, or load a vst instruments and make music using it within the engine. Just an idea..thanks !!!

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[Zylann]

I thought VST were widely Windows-based, but it turns out there was recent shift to support Linux: https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vst3sdk

Not sure it would work on mobile and web platforms though (like many other things anyways). Mostly desktop and high-end would benefit from it.

I don't know what it would take to implement a VST host in Godot, but it sounds like an optional module with audio processing access should be made rather than making it built-in.

[paulallenbright]

Whatever works .. it would be a very cool Windows feature. 😀

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[ghost]

Note that the SDK is proprietary or GPLv3 (copyleft), and Godot is MIT licensed (permissive). Those licenses are not compatible. Thus, it's impossible to include this in Godot.

[clayjohn]

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